Dec 10
If the residents of Northfield need some motivation to get in shape, this may be it. According to an article today in the Press of A.C. the healthiest families at Northfield Community School could score a cool US$5,000.
Parents of children at Northfield Community School (NCS) are receiving information on the 2008 Healthy Schools Initiative. The regional contest for schools sponsored by AtlantiCare offers a prize of $5,000 to the school it deems the healthiest.
NCS will give five families with children in the school the chance to work with personal trainers for 12 weeks, as well as learning to cook healthy meals from top chefs from Harrah’s and the Local 54 Chef Apprentice program.
The personal training for the families (provided by Mainland Fitness) is worth about $6,000 making the combined prize value close to $10,000 per family.
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Dec 07
The Northfield tree lighting ceremony is tonight (Friday, December 07, 2007) at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 1600 Shore Road.
There will be a visit from Santa, music by Community School Chorus and free refreshments will be served. The rain date is December 14, 2007.
See you there!
Nov 12
You can see the “Man in the Moon,” up close and personal, at the Northfield Public Library’s “Moon Watch” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19. The rain/cloud date is Tuesday, Nov. 20.
There will be a short, informative slide show about the moon at 7:30 p.m. At 8 p.m., viewers will go outside to use several professional powerful telescopes located in the Library’s parking lot. If observing conditions are good, local residents should be able to see spectacular, detailed views of individual craters, ancient volcanoes, mountains and plains on the Moon.
The Library purchased an astronomical telescope in 2005 with funds from the New Jersey State Library; two more telescopes were donated by the Friends of the Library and the Briliant Family. With their 8 inch and 6 inch primary mirrors, these 4-foot-long Dobsonian telescopes are capable of gathering 400-600 times as much light as the human eye, and can magnify objects by 200-300 times.
For more information about the Moon Watch, call the Northfield Public Library at 646-4476.
(Source: Press of A.C.)